Receipts vs Smart Receipt Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Receipts
Track personal and business finances with this powerful expense tracker. Customize budgets, accounts, and receipt fields. Generate detailed reports and sync across devices.
- Income and expense tracking
- Mileage tracking
- Customizable budgets and accounts
- Custom receipt fields
- Photo, drawing, and voice memo attachments
- Multi-currency support
- Detailed financial reports (Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML)
- Cloud syncing across devices
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*** Featured by Apple in Taxes & Receipts collection *** Track your personal and business income/expenses (including mileage) with Receipts. Receipts is the most customizable and powerful expense tracking app available. Create budgets, accounts, categories, filters, and nine different types of custom receipt fields. Receipts helps you save time when submitting expense reports and during tax season. Add new receipts quickly using the autofill feature. Capture photos, add drawings, record voice memos, and attach files from other apps. Receipt totals may be entered in any currency and are instantly converted to your home currency. Create sophisticated filters based on multiple receipt fields to quickly find your receipts. Browse through graphs to keep track of income and spending. See how much money is spent over time and by account, category, and currency. Generate Excel, PDF, HTML, and CSV reports with attachments. Optionally embed photos and drawings in PDF reports. Specify report names and add custom headers. Select which receipt fields to include and sort/group receipts by any field. Share reports using a variety of options including Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive. Keep track of business, family, or group income/expenses by syncing to the cloud. Enable automatic sync support to keep multiple devices up to date. Import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments to multiple destinations. Overview: - pie and bar graphs for accounts, categories, units, spending over time, custom currency fields, and income/expenses - email, print, and open graphs in other apps Receipts: - add income, expense, or mileage receipts - add receipts in any currency and set account/home currency totals - use autofill to populate new receipts based on previous receipts - add repeating receipts with interval and end date - attach photos, drawings, voice memos, and other files to receipts - rotate, scale, crop, and adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation for receipt photos Reports: - generate Excel, PDF, CSV, and HTML reports with attachments - add custom report headers - select report file names and report names - sort and group report receipts by any field - specify which fields to include and their order - option to embed photos and drawings in PDF reports (1, 2, or 4 per page) - overlay receipt fields on photos and drawings - include links to file attachments (Excel and HTML) - zip report and attachment files - preview report before sending - send reports via email, iTunes File Sharing, WiFi, another app, print, iCloud, Box, CloudApp, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive Settings: - add accounts to manage groups of receipts - use budgets to keep track of spending - create categories and subcategories - select account and category icons (over 450 included) and a tint colour - custom receipt fields including currency, date, list, number, percent, percent total, switch, tags, and text types - create receipt filters using any combination of fields - notifications remind you to add receipts, save backups, and create reports - passcode for keeping financial data secure Data: - keep multiple devices in sync (requires Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive account) - import and export receipts (CSV) with attachments - backup/restore data and settings Note: Receipts is free but limited to 10 receipts. Purchase an in-app upgrade to Pro for unlimited receipts.
Smart Receipt Scan
Effortlessly manage personal and business expenses by scanning receipts, tracking reimbursements, and organizing financial data. Export reports in various formats and sync across devices for seamless financial oversight. It also helps track product warranties and gift card expirations.
- Smart receipt scanning
- Expense and reimbursement tracking
- PDF/CSV/Excel export
- iCloud sync
- Warranty tracking
- Multi-currency support
- Widgets for spending summary
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Smart Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker. Track Reimbursements against your expenses. PDF/CSV/EXCEL export of receipts and expenses. Maintain your receipts across your iPhone and iPads with iCloud sync. Drag and drop images on iPads to quickly create receipts entries. Maintain your Business Travel receipts in different currencies and set exchange rates to later submit your reimbursements. Receiptly is not restricted to only receipts, you can save your vouchers, invoices, or gift cards to keep track of their expiry date. RECEIPTLY: ALL IN ONE Business and Personal Accounting Solution Whether you are an individual trying to track home expenses, groceries, and tracking all the home purchases receipts to claim your warranties or person running a small business. This is one app that is made for you. Organise your receipts and expenses into Categories. Use tags to quickly filter your related receipts or expenses. Quickly saves a photo of receipt or Invoice on the go while shopping. Customises the details regarding receipts for easy search and tracking. App offers widgets to view a quick summary of the store. Medium size widget helps you keep track of top receipts/invoices for selected stores and/or to keep an eye on upcoming warranties of your products. Features: > Smart Scan: Automatically extract the important information from the receipts. > Quick create: Quickly create using a camera or choose from your photo library. Add existing receipts from the photo library. > Support for Apple Shortcut automations! Automatically create expenses whenever you make a payment. > Set home currency for the receipts and have the ability to set the currency for receipt if you are travelling and can set an exchange rate to use for later for reporting. > Track warranties if products added to the receipts and get notifications. > Track Expenses and reimbursements to get a overview of your incoming and outgoing amount. > Beautiful reports to view your expanses. > Export: Export your receipts data to CSV, PDF or even Excel(spreadsheet) to share with accountants. > Widgets: Beautiful widgets to keep an eye on the spending summary on a store or configure the widget to keep track of product warranties. > Easy Organisation: The app helps you keep your receipts in an organized way for easy search. > Product Tracking > Keep an eye on the product warranties. > Tagging: Tag the receipts to search them easily later. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase to upgrade to plus and you get > Unlimited Smart scans: Unlimited smart scans to easily create receipts. > Export: Export your receipts to share with your tax agents or others. > App Icons: Choose from different app icons of your liking. > Access to the reports for quick summary. For support and suggestions reach at karm.singh@outlook.com • Auto-renewable subscription • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be canceled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Privacy policy: https://receipttrackerapp.com/privacypolicy/ • Terms of use: https://receipttrackerapp.com/termsofuse/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Receipt Scan at 4.5 against Receipts's 2.9. Smart Receipt Scan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (82% vs 63%). Receipts's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Receipts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Smart Receipt Scan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Receipt Scan holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Receipt Scan has 64 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Receipts's written reviews are positive against 82% of Smart Receipt Scan's.
Receipts ships an update every 2 months, Smart Receipt Scan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Receipts | Smart Receipt Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (64 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 64 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tidal Pool Software | Karmjit Singh |
Customer experience
Receipts
Smart Receipt Scan
Bugs and requests
Receipts
Reported bugs
11 issues- Lost data on new phone transfer
- App crashes when exporting large reports
- App deleted receipt images
- Data loss after updates
- Paid version reverts to basic
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- Cannot restore previous PRO upgrade
- App crashes and data is lost
- Upgrade issues with new iOS versions
- Inability to attach receipts/photos to reports
- Receipt data reverts to previous entries
- Camera function issues
Requested features
6 requests- iPad and Mac port
- UK VAT calculation
- Cloud storage integration
- Dark mode
- More filter options
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- PDF import
Smart Receipt Scan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Receipts
- Pro$4.99
- Pro (upgrade from v4)$4.99
Smart Receipt Scan
- Receiptly Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Receiptly Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- One time purchase$24.99
- Receiptly Pro - Lifetime$89.99
Questions
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